How To Grow a Pumpkin Patch [Without Fixing All Your Lousy Soil]
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- If you have a big piece of ground, why not improve a tiny bit of it and plant pumpkins to cover the rest? It's easy and fun. And FIRE!
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That puff of dust that came up after the green bean casserole made me lose it! 😂
Experiencing a mysterious desire to plant pumpkins in a burning boat.
Now THAT'S funny! 🙂🙃🙂
@@notmyfault6835small boats make a great raised bed..
"Mostly peaceful" pumpkin planting
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Soooo perfect!🤣🤣🤣🤣
This technique IS a great way to clean out your fridge and freezer. Been doing this for about a year now since I watched a Black Gumbo video where he credited you with the concept of composting EVERYTHING! I now bury everything I can find that's gross and disgusting from my kitchen, including pantry items along with paper bags, leaves, shredded paper and straw. I plan to try the bio char method soon. My hard, dried-out clay soil in northern California is now rich and full of worms, thanks to you for extending my comfort zone about composting everything.. Great way to dispose of leftover bones from bone broth and stinky, spoiled fish and I don't feel quite so wasteful of food. You are so much fun to watch, and I am so grateful to Black Gumbo for sending me your way.
My husband hates turnips so when I got given a three pound bag of them, I experimented. Boiled IS yucky! Grated and fried in a little avocado oil and butter with a dash of salt is wonderful!
They make chicken broth taste so rich it is unbelievable. Along with parsnips. I always add them to my bone broth. Since no one likes them I compost them but after cooking in stock it takes all the nutrients anyhow and just the fiber is left.
Also good roasted with other root vegetables. 😉
I like them mashed with rutabaga and butter.
@@slaplapdog Mmmm, any thing with butter is probably yum!
Raw is sweet/hot
I’ve planted 10 chicken trees so far, I’m zone 9b so I should have chicken fruit by late summer
I have clean chickens, ya they take
A dirt bath every day
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Excellent video. I can't thank you enough. I've been dumping buckets of slop and manure in random places in our backyard. Mulling over how long it will take me to transform our hard soil in to a food forest. I now feel so much better small steps to get to the big picture.
Awesome.
Ok who else can't help but to sing along at the end. I really like that song. Lol.😎😂🎶
Catch myself singin' it all the time: gardening, feeding critters, milking goats, driving.
I love it too❤️
I always sing it anytime I'm burying a fish or chicken or anything else that died and plenty of other times
I honestly wish David would upload videos dedicated to just his music.
16:44 Great job, Mr. Good Jr.! The next generation of Goodstream is in great hands! ❤️❤️❤️
The thumbnail had an "Annoying Orange" vibe to it. Love it. Annoying Pumpkin.
I was like, how high WAS he?
Your lucky to own land with a house, creek etc even though you've got crappy soil, you've been blessed with the knowledge to improve it 💐🤗😊
I am renting, but we are blessed to be here.
I did this last summer. Some melon mounds got 10-10-10, some got pits. Both did very well. Also grew a a pumpkin in the melon patch cause it got in from the compost
We had a pond where the brim were over populated. I caught several buckets full at tomatoe planting time each year. I buried them 3 feet deep so the raccoons wouldn't dig them up. And by the time the roots went down through the compost and soil to the fish, the fish had started to break down. My tomatoe plants are always 7 feet tall.
But did you get tomatoes?
@@beebob1279 tons
Gonna have to give this melon pit thing a try, I have a tonne of pumpkins, squashes, melons and gourds started in the house and it’s nearly time to ready the beds, thanks David 😁
Just here getting a refresher for the coming season. I find it so entertaining to see what people put in their pits.
Your commentary on the food items is just the icing on the cake.
Hmm, cake...good for pits, too?
I've watched Scott Head's video on these more than once 'cause he puts cool stuff in, too.
Love watching all the leftovers go in there..
Yup thats what I'm here for.
Squash bugs are eaten by birds....put out birdseed every morning...they will eat the hatching worms!
I like that idea. I am planning to build some bird feeders.
Thank you!! Life saver! I hate squash bugs and didn't think about this factoid. Will have to put out nets to keep them out of my berries though
and then the birds eat your darn corn! You can't win.
@@zoeysunshine504 I used to put out bread or cracker crumbs that can't grow in the garden and they feast on the bugs too.
@@peterlamont647 reply.. I cover the ground with bark chips or green plastic fencing laid on top of soil ( cats dont like to per where they can't dig too) and they usually don't find the sprouting seeds, but a cat helps too.
OK this is right up my alley. Thank you for posting this video! I do composting in place to build fertile beds so that I don’t have to haul compost from a pile to a planting space. And now because you talked about melon pits I can do it on a micro scale and put old meat and bones down in there too. Zero waste and free fertilizer, baby!!!
I read your book Compost Everything, but it was nice to watch the video of you making the melon pits. Thank you for all that you share.
Clean out the fridge and top it off with Pop Pop juice. That's what I did for my avocado tree. It's growing like a champ. I put in canned salmon liquid too. Wish I could get some Seminole pumpkin seeds I would try your method. Thanks for the great video.
My seminole pumpkin lasted 9 months and if the cold snap didn't finally kill it, it was still producing!
i didn't know pumpkin roots grew so deep. i read this, "The taproot of mature pumpkins grew 6 feet deep and had 10 or more lateral branches that extensively branched outward for 5 to 17 feet or more. Many of these lateral roots were 2 to 4 feet long and all complexly and minutely rebranched, forming a “wonderfully efficient root complex”.Apr 8, 2019"
Yes - it's insane! Watermelons can grow 8' deep!
that's weird because watermelon roots only grow 8 to 10 inches deep.
That' explains how such a massive plant doesn't need rerooting like most vines do. Just one trunk feeds a plant 36 Sq ft in size and makes a dozen pumpkins. Crazy.
@@Michael_Howard59 depends on where the moisture is at. If constant light watering the roots stay up where the water is.. I miss deep soil
Great Scott! I'm amazed.
Hey David, you ever think about planting a Manuka tree (leptospermum scoparium)? If you have bees you could potentially get Manuka honey and that would be just awesome
It's worth watching you dig holes for 14 minutes just to get to the vacation bit.
"Fire in the Hole"! 🔥🔥🔥 That's how you do it! 👩🌾🌱🎃
David, I am 78 years old, and you crack me up! I'm trying to improve my gardening skills here in HOT southwest Arkansas.
Terra preta has really changed my Florida garden. No doubt
You cutting open that pumpkin/squash with your knife reminded me of your machete incident a few years back. Thankfully you survived this one injury free. Lol and god bless.
Sounds like your growing a mini me too!!! LOL Always Good!!! TY DTG
Thank you for sharing, I've learned alot from you and I share your love for growing💐😊
I get the Burpee nostalgia too. Thanks for this, gonna try it! Thanks for the laughs too!
This gives me so many ideas for our garden thanks and I will be checking out your books
Thank you, Stacy.
Great again. I just found your channel tonight and I'm watching a few of your videos before bed.
I never knew a compost pit like what you've done. Interesting.
Great video David! Doing your melon patch pit idea now! Thanks for sharing.
Im beginning to wonder if David is a pyromaniac? Not that theres anything wrong with that.
Thank you! You just have me hope for growing watermelons and squash in my clay soil. 🙏🏼
Love this idea!
Such a neat idea!
Thanks for all the help with my bugs in my pumpkins.
So gonna try this!
Your wife seems like a very blessed woman!
This video is like yoga for me.🙌
I love this idea thanks,😊
I’m going to attempt pumpkins for the first time this year! 🤠
Such a hoot! Really enjoyed this one : )
I'll watch everything you put up
Green eggs and ham, Sam, “I am growing a Chicken Tree!” 🤣😂🤣 I believe I need to try this, if they grow on trees the city obviously can’t fine me. They just grew on this tree officer after I burned up green eggs and ham. If only political correctness paid so well.
Love your comments..
Wow! Missed this IRIE Goodstream, but I'm here watching and lol....so then in the compost comercial, you were really serious when you'd ask Miss Rachel, "Do you compost your stale ham?" And she'd frown and sadly nod 'no',...hambones, rotten eggs, even some of that leftover green bean casserole that you say is so SCRUMPTIOUS! This is COOL, and knowing your intuition about your Aunt's Seminole pumpkins, they'll do great. It wasn't until 2019 when we discovered the yummy, SCRUMPTIOUS Butternut Squash, so I'll be copying you David and composting anything stale or spoiled, like the other day I had some slimy sweet potatoes, If I'd a known that would have been great compost material for a future Butternut Squash plant! Uprated, thanks for sharing and greetings for The Good Family from Mexico. :)
What are you going to be about the fleets of squash beetle we get in The Panhandle?
Spotted the first one three days ago-
They're coming.
Netting to cover plants till bloom time may help.. also some people make an a spray from a mum plant.
@@cherriemckinstry131 that doesn't work on the Gulf Coast- squash beatles can blot out the sun...
Ok so I have a field with cattle roaming around . I like your idea very much so I want to copy your holes and I shall cover them over with a nice hill of soil and then I am going to lay branches over the freshly planted holes so the cattle will stay out of them hopefully. I want to do pumpkin, watermelon, and like you a big Ole hubbard squash. Such FUN
The Pumpkin Gods have accepted your offerings and in return you shall have a bountiful harvest.
Pumpkin Gods must be easy to pleasy 🤣
Man. I'm breeding squash this year, and as enticing as this is, I don't think I can practically do 200-300 of those. Maybe I'll do a few to get the ball rolling.
4 plants per pit
Nice idea David. Have you tried unglazed pottery shards and horse manure yet? The pottery is great at holding water and nutrients as in a Chia pet. The horse manure is self compostable and shouldn't burn roots. I've found the local nursery use a couple of road apples in newly up potted plants they sell. Please give this a try in one of your tera petra holes.
Awesome sauce 😎
Stay awesome !!
Garden science!!!🤣I love this video..
Great lesson! Going to do this. Son giving botanical name for pumpkins (?) was a hoot. Its a winner!
Thank you. It works well.
David I can't build a fire for the life of me but I've discovered cotton balls with Vaseline on him works beautifully I can now start a fire. Another thing I have done is taking the large restaurant size steel cans and Bury them in the bottom of the whole open side up hoping that it would hold a little water since I am in zone 10 B and everything dries out so bad I think it's worked they do rot out after a couple of years
Drier lint makes great kindling, Babette!
You may could take some 5 gallon buckets to the fast food places, and they may fill them up. Just go by every day. And pick them up. Give them fresh buckets.
I get coffee grounds this way. I have tried with food, told no by everyone. They are worried about humans either eating the buckets of food and getting sick and suing them, or attempting to return the food as though they had paid for it and attempting to get a refund. Even the grocery my wife worked for and was a manager at said no. However, smaller coffee shops LOVE filling a 5 gallon bucket of coffee grinds every day for me.
Love this! (It should be one of the events in the Olympics.)
Thanks for the video! I save every seed from any food I can lay hands on. Many are prolific. I've been noticing, that many of them are also not viable, they're empty with no germ. Even the organics. ( ? Lack of pollination)
Probably. I have noticed that as well.
Looks like fun... but I CANNOT do that in Northern California right now - There's fires in every county surrounding my city due to dry conditions and the air quality is horrid. I am VERY thankful for all the firefighters. I was planning on some (lots) compost and planting pumpkins though... we have lousy clay soil. It's always fun to plant and pray. Harvesting is wonderful as well:-)
Reminds me of where I grew up in PA ...there were places where smoke was always coming out of the ground from smoldering coal!!
Didn't they evacuate a whole town because of underground burning coal? Maybe a good place for some pumpkins!
@@ES-mc3cc I know there was a town in Eastern Pennsylvania it was closed down I don't remember why. One of my friends did a blog walking through that town!
Centralia
A Chicken Tree
with a Side of Ham Shrub
yummers!
Burpee seeds are awesome.@David The Good Do you also buy Dollar Tree seeds?
Cool stuff thanks buddy cheers Ricky 🎵🕺🎈💦🦃🐓
That bone looked like it still had some life in it. ..I always think bone broth or soup.. I like the post hole method. It realky helps.
Hey david I recently got a banana plant but all my soil is clay, I have heard it is bad to grow bananas in clay. Would a 300 gallon grow bag be good for it? It is goldfinger btw. Thank you! Also i cant really like dig a hole and burn stuff since i have closebye neighbors who would not like me for that
The pits work well but I find the most work is getting rid of bermuda without chemicals
Nice to meet u great gardener
@@releventhurt nice to meet you too
Do you thin the pumpkins that come up to just one per pit, or do you let all 4 that sprout grow out in different directions?
Back to the basics! Love it! #PutridPit
Hi! Can you please talk about what you’re doing and why BEFORE you do it so we can follow along better? Thank you!
I really like this idea for planting hardy vigorous crops like pumpkin in an in-ground setting, just dig a big hole and throw in lots of scraps to compost. Any idea about hydrogen sulfide production from this? I've heard lots of permaculture folks warn against putting too much organic matter in a hole when planting a fruit tree because it can produce hydrogen sulfide which functions as a herbicide. I accidentally did this last week when planting tomatoes, I put 4-5 whole rotten eggs and a bunch of coffee grounds in the holes when I transplanted tomatoes, and within a few days, the tomato plants were dying. The holes where I just used coffee grounds the tomatoes look fine. I think 4-5 whole eggs was way too much to put in the hole and it is killing the tomatoes. Interested in your opinion on how much undecomposed organic matter can go into a hole for various crops.
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The answer to the question; What does gravitationally directed GB casserole sound like, meeting an abrupt stage of inertia at the bottom of a melon pit?
Now I want an elusive chicken tree🤣
Been looking for something on chicken trees ☺️
I work in newport news thats cool man
By suprise last year, i realized cow pies im my field were great beds for radish and turnips and sunflower, seeds landed on them while broadcasting them. Great result. Walking down my field and looking at those hundreds of beautiful cow pies today me and my wife thought of this exact video,decided to seed some of our extra zucchini, pumpkins and squashes seeds to see what it will give. Have you tried that with your cow pies since you have cows?
It would take me forever to dig that many holes in my clay soil.....BUT.... there's a place in town that rents a trencher! And to sound really smart I think I will call it a "nutrient inoculation source" instead of a pumpkin hole. LOL
How long do they keep? I had perfectly good spagetthi squash well over a year after harvest. And i heard they dont store well 🤷♂️
Dave I just dumpster dived McDonald’s, a Thai restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, Pizza place, Denny’s, and a Mexican restaurant. I’ve dug 22 3’ deep holes. I started 60 lbs of lump charcoal and then dumped the charcoal on mixtures of tacos and hamburgers in said 3’ holes. I’m going for it. Do you think my egg plant, tomatoes, corn, and bell peppers will make it? I was kinda excited when I saw this and just started. I’ve just been hopping it would work on things other than melons lol! Yahweh bless you Dave. Thanks for the cool idea.
I saw a bunch of seeds per hill
How many do you thin that down to?
You could take the fast food places buckets to put their scrap food in. Then go back when they usually fill them up.
Any updates on this? Did they grow and bring fruits?
Science of burning stuff I like it.
will you please post a recipe for green bean casserole?
This title spoke to me
I like using mychorizae too
Just throwing some thoughts out there....I know your soil test came back showing very little nutrients. However, does soil tests show potential nutrients within the particles of the soil? I ask this, because I remember seeing videos of soil organisms (esp. fungi) bore into particles of sand in order to mine minerals. I know this takes a little time building up the soil to create the conditions for these soil organisms to thrive, but I was wondering just how much nutrients are available in what otherwise would be considered inert sand/clay particles? Part of this questioning comes from watching videos on Gabe Brown's farm and how the soil is apparently becoming more and more nutrient dense with every passing year. BTW, I wish your drum solo in the intro was longer....very good sound:)
Tastier way is just to grow some peanuts. You get peanuts to snack on at the end too instead of fungus. Grow some peanuts and beans and your soil is all set. It's already nice and loose, which most plants like.
So I was out cutting grass today with the push mower since it has a bagger as opposed to the riding mower because it does not have a bagger and I wanted to collect the clippings to use as mulch. I was cutting the grass around my melon patch and thinking about how many melons I wanted to get planted today in this second succession, and was wondering if there's any reason not to just use a bag full of clippings in the hole where I'm going to make a melon pit as opposed to waiting for a bunch of kitchen scraps?
Never mind. Working on it now I'll let you know how it goes
Is David using a microtech? Knife nut mucj
I LOVE homegrown turnips! I would have eaten them every which way I could figure and no doubt farted myself to death!
Unfortunately, I can't start a pit fire like you in my apt courtyard. Someday.... How in the world are you going to keep the squash bugs and other pests away from your pumpkins?!
Hey, I grow giant pumpkins. My pits are five feet wide. But maybe I need to start adding the carbon at first?
You are ahead of me - we can't grow giant pumpkins here. I like how the biochar has worked with my other crops, though. And the ashes have been great for all my vining cucurbits.
You have given me much to think on also are you in Rhode island too?
I am in Lower Alabama.
@@davidthegood oh ok sorry
DAVID!!! Where's the links to your books????
In the description of the video. And here: amzn.to/2pVbyro
Firefighters also do prescribe burns, I could be wrong
Rad gardening methods....
Man, make turnip oven fries! They're awesome, your kids will love them.
Timely vid! I was planning on digging pits and burning like the Indians did , and planting Seminole pumpkins this week! 👍 Love it!!
When you burn in place, are you concerned that the heat sterilizes the ground? I know there is a sterile circle around a burn pile that takes two or more years to fill in with grass.
No, not really.
I just came here to watch you work hard. You need to pick up the pace.
Mmh, can't beat the spectacular texture of boiled turnips.